Portuguese queirós x haithjo heath

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 48852
Date: 2007-06-04

The Portuguese/Spanish surnames Queirós, Quirós, Queiroga came from a word queiro´s (<*queiroos) designating a kind of heath Calluna vulgaris. Are these name related to Germanic *xaithjo: "heath"?
Portuguese queirós < *quedrolos < *caedr- < *chaithr- ?

Joao SL


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